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Welcome to my genealogical website. Here you will find the entire text of my book on the Norwegian settlers in the Manitowoc County area of Wisconsin, entitled Manitowoc-skogen, and my research on a number of families in the United States, Canada, Norway, and Great Britain. If you find this site and the information presented here useful, please leave a comment or contact me. Otherwise enjoy your visit.
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This ancestral chart includes lines of descent of these families: From Canada: Lemieux, Gagnon, Brais, Rousseau, Daigneau From Germany: Krohn, Milarch, Panzer LEMIEUX
The family of Robert Bolton (died 1878) and his wife Ann Bullis (died 1904), who farmed in Wolfe Island Township, Ontario, Canada. BOLTON
The family of John and Elizabeth Reinert, who farmed in Lake Township, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, from c. 1850 to c. 1860.
The descendants of Pierre Vaillant (died 1735) and his wife Jeanne Faucheux (died 1721), of the Parish of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade in Quebec. The family members who settled in Frontenac County, Ontario, in the first half of the 1800s changed the name to Vallier. VALLIER
The descendants of Jens Bjørnsen, who owned the farm Hovland in Lunner in Norway from 1726 to 1738. Descendants in the agnate line have used the surnames Antonsen, Berg, Bjerke, Bjerkek, Gilbertson, Gulbrandson, Herstuen, Johansen, Johnson, Moe, Molstad, Nauring, Sandvold, Stenberg, Sjøvold. BJERKE
The descendants of Henrik Henriksen, who lived at the farm Spetalen in Stange in Norway in the 1740s. ROHNE
The descendants of Hans Syversen (1724-1767) and his wife Kari Nielsdatter (1833-1793), who farmed at Granum in Etnedal.
Continue reading about The Family from Granumsbergene in Etnedal
The descendants of Robert Dowie (1816-1871) and his wife Jane Bellonby (1814-1881), who emigrated from Gateshead, County Durham, to Kingston, Ontario, about 1848. DOWIE
The descendants of agricultural laborer Thomas Ellkinton (died 1860) and his wife Ann Pearson (died 1857), who lived in Frampton Parish in Lincolnshire in England. Their two sons emigrated to the United States in 1851. Until about 1880, the name was spelled Ellkinton. Two genealogies are appended: The Elkingtons of Brant County, Ontario The family […]
The descendants of John Bush (1790-1866) and his wife Mary Holden (1787-1862), natives of Lincolnshire in England. In the 1850s they emigrated to the United States and settled in Wisconsin, as did their three sons and their daughter Nancy. BUSH
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